| Dr Ben Anderson Department of Sociology, University of Essex |
Ben Anderson is a member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research on Economic Sociology and Innovation (CRESI ).
Originally from a natural sciences background, Ben has a BSc in Biology and Computer Science (Southampton University, UK ) and a PhD in Computer Studies (Loughborough University, UK ). He has used techniques from cognitive psychology, anthropology, sociology and ethnography during his time as an academic and commercial research scientist engaged in user studies, human computer interaction and applied social research.
Before joining the University of Essex in 2002 he ran 'Digital Living', a BT programme of applied social science research based on a longitudinal household panel which included quantitative surveys, time-use diaries, ethnographic studies and customer data capture (call records, internet usage logs).
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| Professor Alison Booth Department of Economics, University of Essex |
Alison Booth is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex and the Australian National University. She obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and was President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) from 2005- 2008. Her research interests include education, trade unions, gender, temporary and part-time employment, work-related training, employment protection, behavioural economics and academic labour markets.
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| Dr Philip Cozzolino Department of Psychology, University of Essex |
Philip is lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Essex. His research is on the psychology underlying the construction of standards on which individuals rely to make sense of themselves and the world, including: (1) Equality/Fairness: How do individuals reconcile the tension between social norms of equality and capitalistic norms of inequality? (2) Social Capital: What leads to norms of trusting/helping in society? |
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| Professor Marco Francesconi Department of Economics, University of Essex |
Marco Francesconi is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex. His research focuses on labour and family economics, especially maternal employment and child outcomes, intergenerational links, family structure and fertility dynamics, family formation and speed-dating, evaluation of welfare programmes, monopsonistic labour markets and allocation of authority within organizations. |
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| Dr Andrea Galeotti Department of Economics, University of Essex |
Andrea Galeotti is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex. His area of research is the economics of networks. Current research topics include network formation models, games played in networks, trading patterns in networked markets. Subsidiary interests are political economy, industrial organization and labour economics. |
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| Dr Ayşe Güveli Department of Sociology, University of Essex |
After undergraduate sociology studies in Istanbul (University of Istanbul), Ayse completed her MA and PhD degrees at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Her dissertation focuses on the new class cleavages in the post-industrial societies. In order to reflect the new cleavages, she has adjusted the frequently used EGP class schema (Goldthorpe-schema). Ayse's work has been published in leading international journals. Migration, mobility and changes in life course are her recent research interests. More information could be found on Ayse's home page. |
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| Dr David Pevalin Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex |
David Pevalin is a Senior Lecturer in research methods in the Department of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Essex. He previously worked at ISER between 1999 and 2003. His primary research interest is how life events and conditions influence our health and conversely how our health, mainly long-term chronic conditions, relate to future life events, living conditions and socio-economic trajectories. He was trained as a sociologist with MAs from the University of Leicester and the University of Calgary, Canada before being awarded his PhD at the University of Essex. |
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| Professor João Santos Silva Department of Economics, University of Essex |
João Santos Silva is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex. His research focus on theoretical and applied microeconometrics, and he has published in a variety of academic journals, including the Review of Economic Studies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Econometrics. He is currently a co-editor of the Portuguese Economic Journal.
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| Dr Thomas Scotto Department of Government, University of Essex |
Thomas J. Scotto, BA (SUNY-Binghamton) MA, Ph.D. (Duke) is a political scientist who specializes in public opinion, voting behaviour, and survey methodology with a particular area interest in North America. He is the co-author of Making Political Choices-Canada and the United States (University of Toronto Press), and his articles have appeared in Electoral Studies, and The Journal of Politics. Dr. Scotto's current research explores the determinants of attitudes towards foreign policy and the conflict in Afghanistan in the nations of Europe and North America. |
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| Professor Arnstein Aassve Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University |
Arnstein Aassve is Associate Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University and Deputy Director of DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics . His research interests are economic demography, poverty and deprivation, comparative social policy, micro-econometrics, event history modelling, simulations. |
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| Dr Michèle Belot Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (Nuffield College, Oxford) |
Michèle Belot is Research fellow at the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (Nuffield College, Oxford). She holds a Ph.d. in economics
from Tilburg University (CentER) and was previously a lecturer at the Economics Department at the University of Essex. Her main research interests are in behavioural and labour economics. |
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| Dr Annelies Blom MEA, Mannheim University |
Annelies Blom received her PhD in Applied Social and Economic Research from Essex University in 2009. Currently, she is a senior researcher on the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe at the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA). Previously, she worked on the European Social Survey at GESIS (Mannheim) and at the National Centre for Social Research (London). Her research activities include analyses of nonresponse and nonresponse bias, especially in cross-national surveys, interviewer effects, attrition in panel surveys and other aspects of survey methodology. |
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| Professor Lorenzo Cappellari Department of Economics, Università Cattolica di Milano |
Lorenzo Cappellari (PhD Warwick) is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Università Cattolica in Milan, where he teaches labour economics and econometrics. His research interests are in the field of empirical labour economics, in particular earnings and income dynamics, labour market transitions, job satisfaction, education and training, applied microeconometrics. |
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| Dr Gabriella Conti Department of Economics, University of Chicago |
Gabriella Conti is a Post-Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. Her current research focuses on disentangling treatment from selection effects in the evaluation of interventions, understanding the role of nature and nurture in shaping individual development, and how early-life conditions are translated into later inequalities, both within and across generations. She incorporates insights from behavioral genetics and developmental epidemiology, and uses animal and human data, to understand the socio-biological basis of health disparities, and the pathways through which epigenetic changes affect human development. |
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| Dr Kimberly Fisher Department of Sociology, University of Oxford |
Kimberly Fisher is a member of the Centre for Time Use Research at the University of Oxford, as well as the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Time Use Research (IATUR). She is a member of the Multinational Time Use Study and American Heritage Time Use Study development teams. Her research areas include the impact of caring roles, time with animals, time with other people and transport choices on daily behaviour patterns. Dr. Fisher also works with time use data collection methodology and the measurement of healthy behaviour choices. |
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| Ms Taryn Galloway Unit for Public Economics, Statistics Norway |
Taryn Ann Galloway is a researcher in the Unit for Public Economics at the Research Department of Statistics Norway . Her current research interests include the economics of educational choice, the economic integration of immigrants, analysis of tax and welfare policies, and the economics of criminal behaviour. |
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| Professor Diego Gambetta Nuffield College, Oxfod |
Diego Gambetta, FBA, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow of Nuffield College. His main interests are trust, signalling theory, and organised crime. In 2005 he published Streetwise. How taxi drivers establish customers trustworthiness (with Heather Hamill) and Making Sense of Suicide Missions. In 2009 he published Codes of the Underworld. How Criminals Communicate |
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| Prof. Dr. Harry Ganzeboom Department of Social Research Methodology, Free University Amsterdam |
Harry Ganzeboom is currently professor of Sociology and Social Research Methodology at the Free University Amsterdam and holds a doctorate in Sociology from the Utrecht University. His main research interest is the comparative study of social stratification and social mobility. |
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| Professor Vernon Gayle Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling |
Vernon Gayle is Professor of Sociology at the University of Stirling. His empirical research involves the analysis of large-scale and complex social science survey datasets. He has substantive research interests in the areas of young people, social stratification and education, migration, fertility and e-social science. |
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| Professor Jonathan Gershuny Department of Sociology and St Hugh's College, University of Oxford |
Jonathan Gershuny is the Head of the Department of Sociology and a Fellow of St Hugh's College in the University of Oxford. He is Fellow of the British Academy 2002, previously Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex University, Professor of Sociology at Bath University, and Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford; Jonathan Gershuny was director of ISER from 1993 to 2005. His research interests are the analysis of narrative datasets (life and work histories, time use diaries); interconnections between household organisation, labour force participation, and household formation/dissolution; and relationships between individual-level behaviour and socio-economic structure.
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| Professor Ruth Hancock School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia |
Ruth Hancock is Professor-Economics of Health & Welfare at the School of Medicine Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia. Her research interests are the social, economic and health policy implications of individual and population ageing and the analysis of large-scale household surveys, to address issues in the areas of financial provision for later life. She has developed and maintains a micro-simulation model of long-term care charges. |
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| Dr Monica Hernandez Health Economics and Decision Science, University of Sheffield |
Monica Hernandez joined the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield from the Department of
Economics in August 2009. She obtained her PhD, MSc and BSc in Economics at the University of Leicester. She has previously been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leicester Her research interests are microeconometrics; the analysis of micro level data on the economic behaviour of individuals. In particular, applications to individuals' decisions to participate in welfare programmes, the economics of illicit behaviour and the economics of individual wellbeing. Econometric applications of nonlinear econometric models, global optimisation algorithms and numerical integration. |
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| Dr Helena Holmlund Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics |
Helena Holmlund is currently a Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics. She completed her PhD in Economics at Stockholm University in 2006. Helena's research has focused on intergenerational transmission of human capital, intergenerational income mobility and assortative mating, gender differences in school performance and the long-term consequences of teenage childbearing. |
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| Dr Herwig Immervoll Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
Herwig Immervoll is Head of Employment-Oriented Social Policies at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, and Research Affiliate at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna.
His research interests include analysing trends in social and fiscal policies and their effects on poverty, income distribution and labour markets. He has worked extensively on microsimulation methods and their application to the analysis and evaluation of social and fiscal policies. He has played a major role in developing EUROMOD, the EU-wide tax-benefit model.
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| Dr Man Yee Kan Department of Sociology, University of Oxford |
Man Yee Kan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Councils UK Academic Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. She is also a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Her research interests are gender inequality issues, the interactions between the household and the labour market, working time schedules and family time, and empirical and methodological topics in
time use research.Man Yee completed an MSc and a DPhil in Sociology at St Antony's College, Oxford. She worked at ISER between 2004 and 2006 as a Senior Research Officer. She is currently working on a major project that aims to investigate changes in work week schedules in Britain and France over the past four decades, and examines the impacts of work schedules of partners on their time spent together and domestic division of labour. More details of her work can be found from her personal webpage. |
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| Dr Horacio Levy European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research |
Horacio Levy is a Research Affiliate at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna. Previously, he was a Senior Research Officer at ISER. He holds a PhD in Economics from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. His current research interests are on developing and applying microsimulation methods to analyse and evaluate the effects of social and fiscal policies in developed and developing countries. |
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| Professor Fabrizia Mealli Department of Statistics, University of Florence |
Fabrizia Mealli is Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics at the University of Florence. She worked on statistical models for categorical and transition data and on causal effect models. She is currently working on methods for casual inference applied to policy evaluation. |
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| Professor Letizia Mencarini University of Turin |
Letizia Mencarini is Associate Professor of Demography at the Political Science Faculty of University of Turin . She is Associate at “Centre for Research on Social Dynamics Dondena ”, at Bocconi University, Milan . Her research interests include poverty and demographic dynamics (fertility and migration) both in developed and developing countries, life cycle and family formation, time use and gender issues.
Letizia is a member of the Scientific Board of Population Review journal and the national coordinator of “Temps de vie” project with Université de Paris I, Sorbonne. She has been national coordinator of the project "Family instability: causal factors and demographic, economic and social consequences" (PRIN 2004). Her other research projects include “Gender roles, parenthood and fertility: the 2003 Time Use Survey” with ISTAT and “Poverty dynamics and fertility in developing countries” with VID in Vienna and ISER, at Essex University. |
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| Professor John Micklewright School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton |
John Micklewright is Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton. Prior to this he has been head of research in the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (Florence) and Professor of Economics at the European University Institute and at Queen Mary, University of London. His current interests are: (a) poverty, inequality and the measurement of living standards, (b) labour market flows and behaviour, and (c) educational achievement and social segregation in schools, (d) charitable donations, especially for development. |
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| Professor Abhinay Muthoo Department of Economics, University of Warwick |
Abhinay Muthoo is a professor of economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. He was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of Cambridge. Abhinay has published papers in several top economics journals including
in the Review of Economic Studies, Journal Economic Theory and The Economic Journal. His current research interests include the
micro-foundations of political institutions, political economics, bargaining theory, economics of the family and development economics.
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| Dr Andreas Peichl Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |
Andreas Peichl Andreas Peichl is currently a Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests are in public economics, applied micro-econometrics and labour and welfare economics with particular reference to tax reforms and their empirical evaluation, tax benefit microsimulation, CGE modelling and the analysis of income inequality, poverty and richness, polarisation, and tax progressivity. |
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| Dr Javier Polavieja Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Pompeu Fabra University |
Javier Polavieja, D. Phil Oxon (2001), is currently a Researcher of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies at Pompeu Fabra
University, Barcelona. He works in the area of labour market sociology and social stratification. He has several publications on the determinants and the consequences of temporary employment and on the mechanisms of the gender wage-gap. |
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| Dr Chiara Pronzato Bocconi University |
Chiara Pronzato is research fellow at Dondena - Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University. Her research interests are policy evaluation, intergenerational transmission, topics in family economics. |
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| Dr Helmut Rainer School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews |
Helmut Rainer is a Lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews. He joined the University of St Andrews in August 2005, having previously obtained a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. Helmut's research interests include Microeconomics, Economics of the Family, Population Economics, Bargaining Theory, and Contract Theory. More information can be found on Helmut's home page. |
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| Dr Almudena Sevilla Sanz Department of Economics, University of Oxford |
Almudena Sevilla Sanz is senior researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2004 in the fields of labour economics and econometrics. Her research focuses on the theoretical and empirical modelling of the interaction between market and non-market activities - with a number of articles exploring household production and the allocation of time, savings and consumption behaviour, and labour supply. |
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| Dr Thomas Siedler DIW Berlin |
Thomas Siedler is Senior Researcher at German Institute for Economic Research ( DIW) Berlin. He received his PhD in Economics at the University of Essex (UK) in 2007. He was awarded the prize for the best paper by a young economist at the 2007 conference of the European Association of Labour Economists in Oslo. His general research interests are intergenerational mobility, family economics, labour economics and political economy. Thomas published in the Economic Journal, Economics Letters, Economica, Economics of Transition, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Population Economics and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A
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| Ms Liz Spencer New Perspectives |
Liz Spencer has nearly thirty years experience of qualitative research. She has been a Research Director in the Qualitative Research Unit at the National Centre for Social Research where she worked on a number of social policy studies, and has also been a Principal Research Officer at ISER where she conducted a qualitative study of friendship. Currently she is a partner in New Perspectives, an independent research consultancy. In addition to her research commitments, Liz also teaches qualitative methods at the University of Essex in the sociology department and at the Summer School, and runs training courses on qualitative research and consultation as part of her most recent venture, Q2 Training Complete. Her recent publications in the field of qualitative methodology include three chapters in Qualitative Research Practice and a report for the UK Cabinet Office on assessing the quality of qualitative evaluation and research. Liz Spencer can be contacted by email at either liz@new-perspectives.org.uk or lspencer@q2trainingcomplete.co.uk. |
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| Dr Lara Tavares Dondena Centre University of Bocconi |
Lara Patrício Tavares is a Research Fellow at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (Bocconi University) and an Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa). She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Essex in 2009. Her research interests are population and family economics, intergenerational mobility and economics of education. |
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| Dr Wilbert Van der Klaauw Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
Wilbert van der Klaauw is a Research Economist and Assistant Vice President in the Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He is a labour economist and applied econometrician whose research interests include the study of life cycle labour supply, the economic determinants of household formation and dissolution, the study of educational investment and productivity, the analysis of subjective expectations data and the development of econometric methods for causal inference. His current projects include an analysis of maternal employment, migration and child development, family structure dynamics and its impact on child development, household inflation expectations, and socio-economic impacts of welfare reform in the UK. |
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| Dr Philippe Van Kerm CEPS/INSTEAD |
Philippe Van Kerm is a Research Economist at CEPS/INSTEAD (Luxembourg). His research interests are in applied micro-econometrics, labour and welfare economics and statistical computing, with particular reference to inequality, income mobility and income distribution dynamics. He has published recently in Demography, Economica, the Journal of Economic Inequality, the Manchester School, Oxford Economic Papers, Sankhya (the Indian Journal of Statistics) and the Stata Journal. |
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| Dr Francesca Zantomio Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies |
Francesca Zantomio joined the Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies in October 2009. She has previously been a Senior Research Officer in ISER. Her research focuses on micro-econometrics applied to public economics
and in particular the study of welfare participation, the evaluation of welfare programmes, and the redistributive impact of government intervention through the tax and benefit system. |
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